You can grow winter vegetables in containers

7:22 PM,
Sep. 26, 2013

Lettuce is an excellent cool-season vegetable for growing in containers.

Written by

Dan Gill
LSU AgCenter Horticulturist

Are you not growing vegetables because you don't have a yard to plant them in? Perhaps you live in an apartment. Or is the only sunny area of your landscape covered in concrete? The satisfaction of growing fresh vegetables is undeniable, yet many gardeners do not have a suitable in-ground location to grow them.

Well, container vegetable gardening is an excellent way to produce quality, homegrown vegetables. Many cool-season vegetables suitable for planting now can be grown successfully in containers if they are provided proper care. Vegetables grown during the winter are quite hardy and ...